Chapter Summaries

Yi Tian offered Zhou Mo Yao a new class despite her blindness, and his investment awakened her as a powerful Legendary support. She joined his department, completing the lineup for his first Special Squad, while Zhou Yuan realized his request had ended with Yi Tian taking his daughter away.

• Zhou Mo Yao left the room as Yi Tian examined her profile and learned about her spiritual sight and blindness.
• Yi Tian offered Zhou Mo Yao an investment, and Zhou Yuan agreed to let her try it.
• Zhou Mo Yao signed the contract and awakened as a Legendary Azure Luan Spirit Envoy with powerful support skills.
• Zhou Mo Yao tested Azure Luan Farflight, discovered she could fly safely near Yi Tian, and thanked him for restoring her hope of becoming a capable Classholder.
• Yi Tian told Zhou Yuan that Zhou Mo Yao would join his department, completing his first Special Squad, and Zhou Yuan realized this was not what he had originally intended.

Yi Tian arranged for Zhou Mo Yao to partner with Bai Qiu Li and learned that Zhou Mo Yao lost her sight after seeing a spreading black shadow on the Shadow Moon Wolf Clan’s moon. As they gathered for a meal, an alarm announced another Shadow Moon Wolf Clan attack on Nantang City.

• Zhou Mo Yao touched Yi Tian’s face to remember his features, and Yi Tian told her he had arranged for her to live and study with a girl her age.
• Yi Tian asked Zhou Mo Yao what she had seen five years earlier, and she described a black shadow spreading like corruption across the Shadow Moon Wolf Clan’s moon.
• Bai Qiu Li arrived, and Yi Tian gave her a Legendary Equipment Selection Gift Box before introducing her to Zhou Mo Yao.
• Bai Qiu Li and Zhou Mo Yao agreed to enter Huaxing University as partners after discussing how the Azure Luan Spirit Envoy’s abilities would strengthen Bai Qiu Li.
• As Zhou Yuan called everyone to dinner, an alarm announced that the Shadow Moon Wolf Clan was attacking Nantang City again.

When the Shadow Moon Wolf Clan attacked Nantang City under the Wolf King's concealment domain, Zhou Mo Yao used her skill to reveal and slow the wolves, helping the defenders win. The wolves withdrew, but the Shadow Moon remained in the sky as Yi Tian studied it.

• Zhou Yuan, Yi Tian, Zhou Mo Yao, and Bai Qiu Li rushed to Nantang City's defenses after alarms sounded.
• Zhou Yuan explained that the Shadow Moon concealed the attacking wolves and that the city struggled to reveal them.
• Zhou Mo Yao asked Bai Qiu Li to bring her near the mages and cast [Azure Cloud Severance], marking and slowing wolves hit by their spells.
• Nantang City's defenders used the marks to kill many wolves and drive off the pack, earning Zhou Mo Yao a reward.
• Yi Tian noticed the Shadow Moon had not vanished and watched it from the city wall.

After Yi Tian’s employees received recruitment offers from the American Empire, they reaffirmed their loyalty to him. Wei Yuan arrived at Yi Tian’s door carrying a black cat in a customized pet carrier, leaving the reason for his visit unclear.

• Bai Qiu Li returned to Huaxing University with Zhou Mo Yao, while Yi Tian went home and received rewards for Wan Jiang’s promotion and Ning Jing’s discovery of an Ancient Ruins site.
• At Central China Headquarters, Wei Yuan asked Old Sun to let him take Transcendent Forbidden Object [003], believing Yi Tian might be the Child of Prophecy.
• Bai Qiu Li, Wan Jiang, Jiang Che, and Ye Xiu told Yi Tian they had received recruitment letters from the American Empire’s Military.
• Ye Xiu explained that an American Empire [Messenger] could deliver letters remotely, and Jiang Che vowed to work harder after seeing his offer was worse than the others’.
• Wei Yuan arrived at Yi Tian’s door carrying a customized pet carrier with a black cat inside.

Yi Tian discovered that the black Time Cat submitted to him, though he concluded he was probably not the Child of Prophecy. After receiving a Dragon Ancestor's Secret Realm Token, he entered the ruins in the Forbidden Land.

• Yi Tian opened the carrier, and the Time Cat climbed onto his lap and let him pet it; its résumé identified it as the destined partner of Great Xia's Child of Prophecy.
• Yi Tian asked Wei Yuan to leave the cat with him so it could help locate the Child of Prophecy, and Wei Yuan warned him to keep it away from other people.
• Wei Yuan explained that the Elder Dragon Race ruins near Dingcheng lay inside the Dragon Ancestor's Secret Realm, which required a token to enter.
• Yi Tian showed Wei Yuan the Dragon Mark Token he had kept from Norton's dungeon, and Wei Yuan took him to the ruins entrance.
• Ning Jing explained the ruins' clues, and Wei Yuan gave Yi Tian a single-use Soul Ferry rope as a lifeline.
• Yi Tian secured the rope, used the token, and vanished into the ruins.

Yi Tian entered the Ancient Ruins in the Forbidden Land and found evidence of a catastrophic war among the Dragon Race before a strange mental power pulled him into a ruined palace. There, a dying young noble pinned to a cross asked Yi Tian to help him.

• Yi Tian entered the Ancient Ruins and learned that White Sovereign descendants, betrayers, and God's Favored would die upon entry.
• The Crimson Emperor, Azure Emperor, and White Emperor discussed the Black Emperor and planned to move their main force to Blue Star in five days.
• Yi Tian collected dragon marrow crystals and found a stone tablet describing the Dragon Race's ancient rulers as One Emperor, One Sovereign, and Four Lords.
• Yi Tian emerged among the Dark Mountains, which were formed from a colossal dragon's vertebrae and surrounded by dragon remains.
• A surge of mental energy transported Yi Tian to a ruined palace, where a dying young noble pinned to a cross asked him for help.

Yi Tian encountered the Black Emperor-Nidhogg, whose soul remained pinned to a cross by the Eternal Spear, and learned that changing his abilities could free him. Nidhogg reshaped his soul into human form, allowing Yi Tian to recruit him, and the contract’s activation heralded the Black Emperor’s return.

• Yi Tian read Nidhogg’s résumé and learned that the former ruler of the dragons had been betrayed and bound by the Eternal Spear.
• Nidhogg asked Yi Tian to pull out the spear, then explained that changing his soul abilities could make it lose its target.
• Yi Tian said he could not recruit a dragon until reaching level 50, so Nidhogg reshaped his soul into human form and revealed a hidden Black Emperor class investment opportunity.
• Yi Tian accepted Nidhogg as an employee, addressed him as Boss’s new recruit, and activated the contract.
• The ruined palace collapsed, and a vision of enormous black dragon wings announced the world-ender’s return.

Yi Tian examined Nidhogg’s new soul-type Black Emperor class and learned how its powers could suppress the Dragon Race and let him possess other bodies. Since the White Emperor guarded the Forbidden Land, Yi Tian brought Alice there so she could help Black Prince grow stronger through dungeons.

• Yi Tian reviewed Nidhogg’s new class, while Nidhogg left the cross and joked that he had become a support character.
• Nidhogg chose the name Black Prince until his original body could be revived, and Yi Tian agreed to call him that.
• Black Prince explained that he could not leave the Forbidden Land because the White Emperor was guarding its entrance.
• Yi Tian summoned Alice, who arrived after struggling against a level 60 Lord Boss in a dungeon.
• Yi Tian introduced Alice to Black Prince and planned for them to level up together in dungeons.

Yi Tian discovered that the Black Emperor-Nidhogg’s corpse still had Special Potential and agreed to revive it, while the Black Prince promised to confront World Tree Yggdrasil. The group left the Forbidden Land, and the White Emperor suddenly realized the Eternal Spear’s target had disappeared.

• Alice accepted the Black Prince as her partner, and Yi Tian assigned her to keep him in check.
• Yi Tian’s Résumé scan detected Special Potential in the Black Emperor-Nidhogg’s corpse, revealing that it could potentially be revived.
• The Black Prince offered to help destroy the Yagu Continent and deal with World Tree Yggdrasil if Yi Tian revived his body, and Yi Tian agreed.
• Yi Tian failed to take the Eternal Spear because the World Tree’s permission was required, then left the Ruins with Alice and the Black Prince.
• The White Emperor panicked in the Crimson Emperor’s Palace when the Eternal Spear’s target disappeared.

After Nidhogg vanished from the Forbidden Land, the White Emperor suspected Great Xia and crossed into Dingcheng to search for him. Yi Tian shielded Ning Jing from the White Emperor’s word spirit, and the White Emperor left without finding Nidhogg, prompting Wei Yuan to question what Yi Tian had done in the ruins.

• The White Emperor learned that Nidhogg, the Dragonbone Cross, and the Eternal Spear’s target had disappeared, then suspected Great Xia and rushed through the Otherworld Passage.
• Yi Tian emerged from the ancient ruins near Dingcheng with dragon materials and Dragon Language Steles, while the Black Prince was leveling in dungeons with Alice.
• The White Emperor appeared near Dingcheng and triggered Wei Yuan’s traps before using [Word Spirit-Royal Authority] to suppress the city’s Classholders.
• Yi Tian remained unaffected by the White Emperor’s word spirit and protected Ning Jing, who remarked that her boss did not seem human.
• The White Emperor searched a vast area for Nidhogg, found no trace, and returned to the Yagu Continent to seek guidance from World Tree Yggdrasil.
• Wei Yuan canceled the emergency protocol and asked Yi Tian what he had done in the ruins, and Yi Tian said he had found the Yagu Dynasty an interesting opponent.

While Alice and the Black Prince cleared a mutated secret realm, Alice discovered that Great Xia’s Ultimate Boss slot was already occupied. Back in Dingcheng, Yi Tian learned that the American Empire had asked Great Xia for help with the Void Insect Race and heard that a Trial Secret Realm had appeared in Eastern Capital.

• Alice and the Black Prince entered a mutated secret realm, warned Lin Guodong’s pioneering team away from the boss, and confronted the Black Flood Dragon King.
• The Black Prince used Gift of Blood to empower Alice, who killed the level 60 Black Flood Dragon King in three slashes and gained two levels.
• Alice learned she could not advance to Ultimate Boss because Great Xia’s sole slot was occupied, and she ordered the secret realm transferred to the Boss.
• Wei Yuan told Yi Tian that the American Empire had asked Great Xia to handle Void Insect Race invasions, but Yi Tian refused its offer and told them to wait.
• Wei Yuan revealed that a Trial Secret Realm had appeared in Eastern Capital, and Yi Tian asked where it was.

Yi Tian and Wei Yuan agreed to take their Special Squad to compete for a secret realm in the International Public Zone, while Bai Qiu Li and Zhou Mo Yao attended Huaxing University’s Freshman Challenge Tournament. Bai Qiu Li entered the tournament and spotted Liu Yuan after his match with the elf Vidi.

• Yi Tian learned that nations including Great Xia and the American Empire competed for secret realms in the International Public Zone, and agreed with Wei Yuan to go claim one.
• Bai Qiu Li and Zhou Mo Yao completed enrollment at Huaxing University and explored campus together.
• Bai Qiu Li remembered Yi Tian wanted her to enter competitions for the rewards, so she and Zhou Mo Yao headed to the Freshman Challenge Tournament.
• Liu Yuan fought the elf El Vidi to a close match, then told Vidi he was nowhere near the strongest freshman in Great Xia.
• Bai Qiu Li found tournament teacher Jiang Yuan Shuang, left Zhou Mo Yao with her, and prepared to compete.

Bai Qiu Li won Huaxing University's Freshman Challenge Tournament with a single overwhelming strike and joined Yi Tian's group for a Trial Secret Realm. On the way to the Eastern Capital, Yi Tian learned that Alice and Black Prince had claimed a small secret realm for him, revealing his supposed influence to Wei Yuan.

• Bai Qiu Li defeated El Vidi and another silver-haired elf with one sword strike apiece, then took first place after no one else dared challenge her.
• Bai Qiu Li told Zhou Mo Yao that Yi Tian had invited them to join him in a Trial Secret Realm, and Jiang Yuan Shuang approved her day off.
• Yi Tian traveled toward the Eastern Capital with Wei Yuan and Wan Jiang, while the Earthshaker Team withdrew from the tier 2 secret realm expedition because Yi Tian and Wan Jiang were going.
• Wei Yuan told Yi Tian that Commander Lin had reported two monsters demanding a small secret realm be transferred to Boss, and Yi Tian admitted that Alice and Black Prince had acted for him.
• Yi Tian realized Alice and Black Prince needed a way to contact him, while Wei Yuan joked about how far his influence reached.

Yi Tian’s group assembled the five-member Special Squad in the Eastern Capital as they arrived at the Trial Secret Realm. They faced rival teams from the American Empire and the Elven Royal Family just as the ruins entrance appeared.

• Yi Tian introduced Zhou Mo Yao to Bai Qiu Li’s group, completing the five-member Special Squad.
• Yi Tian and the others reached the secret realm coordinates, where Wei Yuan identified the American Empire’s Delta Special Forces Base and the Elven Royal Family as rival teams.
• Colonel Jack warned Martin and the Delta squad not to underestimate Bai Qiu Li’s group, whom he had already tried to recruit.
• El Venn and another elf discussed Bai Qiu Li before the entrance to the ruins appeared.

Yi Tian let Ye Xiu lead Great Xia’s team in a shared-map secret realm race where the teams competed to reach and claim the central boss. While the elves and American Empire cleared monsters along their routes, Great Xia raced past them without fighting, leaving the other teams baffled.

• Serena warned El Venn that he needed to claim another secret realm to pass the royal court’s assessment, and the teams learned they would share one map and compete for the central boss.
• Ye Xiu proposed a strategy, and Yi Tian let him lead Great Xia’s team while turning down the American Empire’s offer to trade a small secret realm for help against the elves.
• Great Xia, the American Empire, and the Elven Royal Family entered the trial from separate corners; the American and elven teams cleared monsters quickly, with Vien’s magic wiping out large groups.
• Great Xia’s progress bar surged ahead without stopping, surprising Serena and Colonel Jack as Wan Jiang led the squad past every monster toward the boss.
• Jiang Che marveled at racing through the secret realm, while Zhou Mo Yao complained that the team was moving too fast.

Ye Xiu led his team through the tier-two Trial Secret Realm by ignoring the Minions and rushing straight to the boss, which they defeated in seconds. Yi Tian received 75 funds from their victory but postponed the employee bonus to preserve funds for future recruitment.

• Ye Xiu devised a strategy to bypass the Minions, using Zhou Mo Yao’s shield and Wan Jiang’s lightning to clear a path to the boss.
• Zhou Mo Yao endured being pulled along at high speed as the team raced to the boss area and buffed everyone with [Azure Cloud Severance].
• Ye Xiu’s team defeated the level-55 boss in just over ten seconds, ending the secret realm before the other teams could reach it.
• Yi Tian received 75 funds from the victory, bringing his balance to 123.1.
• Yi Tian considered giving all eight employees legendary Equipment Mystery Boxes but decided to postpone the 80-fund bonus to keep funds available for recruitment.

Great Xia claimed the Trial Secret Realm and discovered it contained the Starfield Glory arena, where fighters could earn points and rewards through ranked duels. Yi Tian gave Ye Xiu one of the realm’s scarce Entry Tickets, and Ye Xiu entered the arena to find his first opponent.

• Serena approached Wei Yuan’s group to make friendly overtures, while El Venn challenged Ye Xiu to fight another time.
• Colonel Jack offered two small secret realms in exchange for Great Xia’s help against the Void Insect Race, but Yi Tian told him to reconsider.
• Wei Yuan led Yi Tian and Ye Xiu’s group into the Trial Secret Realm, where they found the Starfield Glory Arena Network and its ranked duels and rewards.
• Yi Tian gave Ye Xiu an Entry Ticket, and Ye Xiu entered the arena at Bronze 5 to be matched with an opponent.

Ye Xiu dominated his Starfield Glory matches, advancing from bronze to the brink of gold and earning a title that benefited Yi Tian’s team. His next promotion match paired him against a virtual projection of Wei Yuan in his youth, who urged him to prove the younger generation could surpass the old.

• Yi Tian gave the remaining admission tickets to Bai Qiu Li and Jiang Che while Wan Jiang bowed out, and Ye Xiu matched against a virtual opponent from the American Empire.
• Ye Xiu instantly defeated five bronze-rank opponents, reached Silver 5, and earned the Glory-Silver Challenger title, which increased his damage against alien creatures.
• Ye Xiu continued winning against powerful silver-rank projections, including Colonel Jack and Zhou Yuan, and reached Silver 1.
• Ye Xiu’s next match was against a younger, tier-two projection of Wei Yuan, leaving Wei Yuan hoping Ye Xiu would defeat him.

Ye Xiu defeated the young Wei Yuan in Starfield Glory and earned a hidden Omnipotent talent that doubled the numerical values of all his skills. He started matchmaking for another fight, while El Venn, frustrated by his defeat to Ye Xiu, entered a Trial Secret Realm to play Starfield Glory.

• Ye Xiu used the Thousand-Mechanism Umbrella and tactical feints to defeat the young Wei Yuan, earning Gold rank and an Ability Replenishment Use.
• Wei Yuan admitted Ye Xiu had surpassed him in understanding tactics and class abilities, while Yi Tian received funds and an upgraded Golden Duelist title.
• Ye Xiu used the Ability Replenishment Use, and its scan found no shortcomings in his abilities, unlocking the Omnipotent (Beginner) talent.
• Ye Xiu discovered that Omnipotent doubled the numerical values of all his skills and began matchmaking against real opponents at Gold rank.
• El Venn explained his defeat to the elders, then took an admission ticket into a Trial Secret Realm to play Starfield Glory.

Ye Xiu defeated Elviene in the Arena, reached Gold 4, and discovered that the Glory Vault offered World Artifacts and exclusive equipment. Wei Yuan then left to join Great Xia’s planned attempt at the Level 74 Fourth-Tier Advancement Dungeon, while Yi Tian considered whether Alice could help them overcome its powerful restriction.

• Elviene challenged Ye Xiu, who tricked him with an invisible escape from behind Holy Guard and defeated him with a dagger strike.
• Ye Xiu earned 200 Starlight Points, advanced to Gold 4, and found World Artifacts and an Exclusive Equipment Blind Box among the Glory Vault rewards.
• Yi Tian asked Ye Xiu to redeem an Exclusive Equipment Blind Box for his Boss class, but Ye Xiu had only 950 points and needed 2,000.
• Wei Yuan took a call and told Yi Tian he was leaving to join headquarters’ planned attempt at the Level 74 Fourth-Tier Advancement Dungeon.
• Wei Yuan explained that Great Xia needed to prepare for the White Emperor’s return and hoped a fourth-tier advancement might help Zhou Yuan extend his life.
• Yi Tian considered whether Alice could advance to Ultimate Boss and counter the dungeon boss’s 90% attribute reduction.